Today was the third and hopefully final egg retrieval. This cycle has been underwhelming and just seemed off to me from the beginning. I went into today’s retrieval with limited expectations. About six follicles were seen but I knew one of the six would be lost. I was thinking three to five eggs would be retrieved based on what we were seeing.

We arrived bright and early at the clinic. There was barely any traffic or horrendous drivers. We waited until staff arrived to get us checked in. About twenty minutes later it was time for me to go back to pre-op. B went out to the car to sleep. I find it funny some staff were like oh he’ll need to go to the lab. Nope. He doesn’t.

Ms. Rita was my nurse again. She got my IV pretty quickly and it didn’t hurt. This was probably the least anxious I have been receiving an IV. I opted for two blankets today and to lay down since it was still nice and early. The nurse anesthetist came back and reviewed their consents. Closer to 9am did the doctor come in to do his consents. So again for the third time, we were not on time, but this is the closest to on time we’ve been.

I made it through my IV in just about 30 minutes. I was asked to use the restroom and then walked into the procedure room at 9:08am. I just recall getting on the table, having my legs in the stirrups and laughing as I could feel the medications kicking in. I woke up nearly an hour later in post-op.

Four eggs were retrieved. That’s fairly good. A win as when I looked back the doctor wanted 14-16 eggs retrieved. I’m hopeful three of the four will be mature. The rest of my eggs will thaw today as well along with B’s sperm. They will perform ICSI today to fertilize what eggs then can.

I’m hopeful to receive a call today to just know which eggs were mature from today though I think we’ll just get a call tomorrow to update how many were fertilized. From there we’ll get a three day update and a five day update. Once at five days the embryos will be biopsied to send a sample for genetic testing. So we’re officially in the same hurry up and wait period. Time to let my body relax and heal for what is next to come ♥️

-A